Ms. Inman

Welcome

Welcome to our Blog! Information Literacy is applied everyday in the media center.
The Dickerson Media Center houses over 16,000 non-fiction, reference, and fiction books on a wide variety of topics. Students can check up to 3 books for a 2 week time period except reference books which are limited to one at a time for overnight only.

We have 23 computers with access to the internet.  We subscribe to several research databases which include full-text periodical and reference works including general as well as subject specific encyclopedias.

Photo Story Directions

Below is a handout to help you create a Photo Story project for Ms. Holliday and Ms. Lockhart's 6th grade social studies class.

Download Photo Story

Frommer's Travel guides in eLibrary is a great sournce of information and places of intrest in your various countries.

8th Grade Decades Project

Use the below link to access recomend resources from the Cobb Virtual Library as well as our Dickerson ebooks which includes the UXL American Decades.

Download American decades pathfinder.

Book Club

Calling all book club students!

Pick your favorite Dickerson Book Award nominee and stop by to record a book talk!

Resources for South America Research

The following document is a pathfinder of resources for research on South & Central American countries.

Download Travel to SouthAmerica

Following in thier Footsteps

In honor of "National Inspirational Role Model Month" I am working with language arts teachers on a lesson entitled "Following in Their Footprints."

Download followinthefootprints.doc
Download followinthefootprintsstudents.doc

Students will check out a book on a person who is an "inspirational role model, or a book with a character who is a role model and then complete two footprint cut outs. 

1st - with the author, title, person who is the role model, and a summary of the book.
2nd- descriptions of how/why you see this person as a role model.

We want to decorate the halls with people and characters who inspire us.

Dickerson Book Award

It is time again to nominate books for the "Dickerson Book Award.  The Reading Raiders would like students to nominate great reads that they would like to share other students and possibly even win the "best book" award. Books need to have been published in the past 5 years.  The book also has to have a character who is an inspirational role model.  Please use the following form for your nominations.

Download dickersonbookaward.doc

What will you catch in your reading web?

Student Achievement:  This month we had all the 6th and most of the 7th grade students come to the library to learn about the Dewey decimal classification system.  Students picked out a fiction book.  Then the students had to look up the subject headings for their chosen book in Destiny and search and locate a non-fiction book with a similar subject.  Students were very creative with their selections and they learned more about using the library and the library catalog.  They pick out some very interesting non-fiction books to read. We checked out over 3,700 books.
"Paring non-fiction books with fiction books can improve student's vocabulary and comprehension."  (2006, D. Camp)
    

7th Grade, Cobb Virtual Library Intro. to the Middle East

Use the Cobb Virtual Library Resources to find information about the Middle East.

Download online_resources_for_7th_grade_social_studies.doc

Young Adult Authors

Visit the media center website to access links on young adult authors.  The young adult information work sheet is also available from that page.

Holiday Traditions Around the World

Use the following website to access information on holiday tradions around the world.

Holidays Around the World